Actually, sounds more like Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.
Um, no?
See, it's against the law for minors to consume beer or cigarettes. No such law exists for minors who hear or even speak in expletives (thank you, First Amendment!).
We need to get past this idea that a young adult who hears the "F-word" has been mentally or emotionally harmed.
Comcast, AOL and others might be opening themselves up to suits from legitimate businesses.
I think those lawsuits might be dismissed pretty quickly once it came out that those "legitimate businesses" were being run from internet service and email accounts specifically designated as inappropriate for business operation.
I doubt Comcast is going to apply the same type of restrictions on an $80/month business-class account as they do on a $35/mo residential account that's only supposed to be used for consumery stuff like web browsing and IM. The former might justifiably need to send more than 100 emails within an hour, the latter almost certainly doesn't.
the only conclusion I can draw ATM is that using software you are not familiar with take more time, especially for advanced stuff like data validation. Duh.
It's a wholly cromulent conclusion to draw, though.
An office that currently uses MS Windows and Office is going to incur larger migration and retraining costs if they migrate to Linux and OO.org than if they upgrade to the next MS versions.
Yes, a completely objective comparison would make sure that users had equivalent experience with both platforms prior to testing. But the real world isn't objective like that -- the laws of vendodynamics suggest that a company that licenses from a vendor will upgrade with that same vendor, unless acted upon by an outside force.
Linux advocates need to explain to companies, what is this outside force and why is it significant?
Err, one word, Memory Stick, well, two words then.
Sony will gladly license Memory Stick technology to anyone who wants to implement it on their device (and agrees to licensing terms) -- it's just that since CompactFlash and other similar technologies were already out there, not many manufacturers saw any reason to license it...
They kept charging $15 dollars a CD even though the cost of the media kept falling.
But at the same time, the price of production and even recording technology has gone up.
It probably costs more today to hire Timbaland or Bob Rock to sit in the control room for one session than it took to record and produce an entire album's worth of material 20 years ago.
Second, I believe sharing music is protected under free speech.
You're free to believe that, but it's wrong. Just plain wrong.
What if you already own the CD? Isn't that just fair use?
The RIAA is going after file sharers, not file leechers.
Downloading an MP3 of a song you already own on CD may be considered fair use (MAY be; I'm not aware of any court precedent regarding those specific circumstances, and IANAL anyway). Making an MP3 of a song available for replication to an unknown number of unknown people very clearly is NOT fair use.
My friend purchased one of the athlon XP-2500 mobiles for ~$90 a couple months ago (stock at 1.83 ghz), and managed to overclock it to 2.6ghz with the same stability as the processor is stock
And how much is the processor's lifespan shortened by the additional stress of overclocking?
Granted, if a CPU would normally last 10 years before failing, and overclocking brings that down to 5 years, but you upgrade hardware every 3 years, it doesn't really matter. But let's not neglect to mention that just because a component seems to be performing well outside of spec today, that it always will.
Doubtful. The only consumers who care if a processor CAN be overclocked are the ones who are GOING TO overclock their processors -- even with the recent OCing popularity boom, I'd doubt that represents more than 1 in every 1,000 CPU sales made.
Furthermore, selling to people who try to overclock ends up inflating the return rates for the product, giving an impression of decreased reliability. If you're an OCer and accidentally burn out an OEM processor within the first week you own it, what do you do -- do you shrug, say "them's the berries," and open your wallet to buy another one, or do you take it back to the store and claim "it was DOA" and try to exchange it or get your money back? Probably not the former.
This is why Virtual PC for G5s doesn't exist yet; G5s are missing endian-related instructions that are used by current versions of VPC.
Well, that's part of the reason. It's not as though translating non-native-endianness is a problem that hasn't been solved; rewriting the VirtualPC code to call a translate routine on each memory read or write since a "shift into little-endian mode" instruction isn't available shouldn't be too large a task. (Obviously, though, there would be a significant performance hit.)
Another part of the reason is that Microsoft owns VirtualPC now, and they understandably don't have much incentive to make it easier for Mac owners to get the most out of their Panther-running G5 boxen. It's outside of their core market.
While backward compatability severely limited the potential of the PC, it was absolutely required to maintain continuity (check OS/2 sales for reference).
OS/2 seems to be a pretty poor example, as it was capable of running most legacy DOS software and 16-bit Windows software as well as, if not better than, Microsoft's original operating systems.
It was only when development began for Win95 and NT's 32-bit codebases -- which differed from what came before and from OS/2 -- that OS/2 began to lose marketshare.
OS/2 failed because of a lack of lateral compatibility, not backward.
Best Brains Inc. still exists, although they have few employees beyond Jim Mallon, few assets beyond a tape library and a warehouse of props, and do little business beyond the occasional negotiation with Rhino Video or sale of remaindered merchandise.
The situation gets a little more complicated, though, because MST3K episodes are derived works -- the majority of the films they watched were copyrighted by other companies, and had to be licensed.
The conditions of these licenses vary -- some included the right to resell, and that's why about 15% of the show's run is available on DVD now. Some were for broadcast only and may never see a DVD release. Some broadcast-only licenses even specified a limited number of airings -- "Gorgo" from the Sci-Fi run, for example, only aired a handful of times.
In 1976 congress extended copyright retroactivley to 75 years.
They also clarified that creative works are automatically copyrighted at the moment they are created in tangible form. You don't HAVE to send 2 copies of your work and a registration fee to the Copyright Office anymore to claim copyright.
This broadening of the definition of copyright can only be considered a good thing for artists and creators.
until one can write an OS kernel in it, Java is still not what I would personally look to for the future of software development.
That's a silly thing to say.
How many OS kernels are going to be written in the next ten years? And how many business applications? And the ratio of the latter to the former is what, 10,000 to 1?
If they want to get info let them start with basic geographic data. Don't show someone with a european IP ads for america only products. Surely that shouldn't be that hard?
How do you get basic geographic data about your users? There are basically two ways:
1) Use some sort of IP-to-location mapping system. All of a sudden, 30% of your traffic all lives in the same town in Virginia, where AOL's proxies are located.
2) Ask users what their zip code is. Since, as you've said, registration is totally useless because people fill in false info all the time, all of a sudden 40% of your traffic all lives in Beverly Hills 90210.
So how are websites supposed to accomplish their geographic goals with any accuracy?
If it's done but the docs aren't, nobody holds the release up.
If it's done but the docs aren't, IT'S NOT DONE.
This is a philosophy that the Open Source community desperately needs to adopt from the proprietary world. The better (or more existent) your docs are, the less time you'll have to spend reading requests for help on your project dev list.
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An who in the gov't decided that shitty music that doesn't sell is an appropriate method of payment?!?!
Nobody. RTFA.
The discs distributed as part of the settlement had to spend 26 weeks on the Billboard charts, and have peaked in the top half of that list.
So these were discs that DID sell well, but the labels overestimated demand and overmanufactured them.
Actually, sounds more like Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor.
Um, no?
See, it's against the law for minors to consume beer or cigarettes. No such law exists for minors who hear or even speak in expletives (thank you, First Amendment!).
We need to get past this idea that a young adult who hears the "F-word" has been mentally or emotionally harmed.
At times I browse remotely with lynx to get to sites that require registration before making downloads.
Yeah, I don't like bringing up those picture-intensive porno sites on my GUI desktop at work, either.
Why, except in a few rare cases, would you regularly use a command line IM client in favor of a graphical one? It seems terribly inconvenient.
Instant Messaging is text-based, right? Why WOULDN'T you use a console app over a more bloated graphical one?
Comcast, AOL and others might be opening themselves up to suits from legitimate businesses.
I think those lawsuits might be dismissed pretty quickly once it came out that those "legitimate businesses" were being run from internet service and email accounts specifically designated as inappropriate for business operation.
I doubt Comcast is going to apply the same type of restrictions on an $80/month business-class account as they do on a $35/mo residential account that's only supposed to be used for consumery stuff like web browsing and IM. The former might justifiably need to send more than 100 emails within an hour, the latter almost certainly doesn't.
(IANAL, natch)
Forget the fact that all of this information is available on the Internet
That's bullshit. Read the article.
If my credit card number and health records are available on the Internet, there are going to be some lawsuits forthcoming.
Being "secure" means being certain that there are no holes in the screening process, even if it inconveniences you.
How does having my home phone number or Social Security number help the government find concealed weapons on airline passengers?
the only conclusion I can draw ATM is that using software you are not familiar with take more time, especially for advanced stuff like data validation. Duh.
It's a wholly cromulent conclusion to draw, though.
An office that currently uses MS Windows and Office is going to incur larger migration and retraining costs if they migrate to Linux and OO.org than if they upgrade to the next MS versions.
Yes, a completely objective comparison would make sure that users had equivalent experience with both platforms prior to testing. But the real world isn't objective like that -- the laws of vendodynamics suggest that a company that licenses from a vendor will upgrade with that same vendor, unless acted upon by an outside force.
Linux advocates need to explain to companies, what is this outside force and why is it significant?
Err, one word, Memory Stick, well, two words then.
Sony will gladly license Memory Stick technology to anyone who wants to implement it on their device (and agrees to licensing terms) -- it's just that since CompactFlash and other similar technologies were already out there, not many manufacturers saw any reason to license it...
I've gone through at least 6 InFocus projectors in the last 1.5 years due mainly to bulb failure.
Um... don't LCD projectors normally allow you to replace the bulb without trashing the entire unit?
They kept charging $15 dollars a CD even though the cost of the media kept falling.
But at the same time, the price of production and even recording technology has gone up.
It probably costs more today to hire Timbaland or Bob Rock to sit in the control room for one session than it took to record and produce an entire album's worth of material 20 years ago.
Second, I believe sharing music is protected under free speech.
You're free to believe that, but it's wrong. Just plain wrong.
Anonymous P2P will likely 'solve' these lawsuits, the technology is coming along nicely.
All right! Speaking as a spammer and a terrorist, I must say I'm eager to try this new exciting technology.
Signed,
Osama Rhodes
What if you already own the CD? Isn't that just fair use?
The RIAA is going after file sharers, not file leechers.
Downloading an MP3 of a song you already own on CD may be considered fair use (MAY be; I'm not aware of any court precedent regarding those specific circumstances, and IANAL anyway). Making an MP3 of a song available for replication to an unknown number of unknown people very clearly is NOT fair use.
My friend purchased one of the athlon XP-2500 mobiles for ~$90 a couple months ago (stock at 1.83 ghz), and managed to overclock it to 2.6ghz with the same stability as the processor is stock
And how much is the processor's lifespan shortened by the additional stress of overclocking?
Granted, if a CPU would normally last 10 years before failing, and overclocking brings that down to 5 years, but you upgrade hardware every 3 years, it doesn't really matter. But let's not neglect to mention that just because a component seems to be performing well outside of spec today, that it always will.
Do these sorts of things hurt their business?
Doubtful. The only consumers who care if a processor CAN be overclocked are the ones who are GOING TO overclock their processors -- even with the recent OCing popularity boom, I'd doubt that represents more than 1 in every 1,000 CPU sales made.
Furthermore, selling to people who try to overclock ends up inflating the return rates for the product, giving an impression of decreased reliability. If you're an OCer and accidentally burn out an OEM processor within the first week you own it, what do you do -- do you shrug, say "them's the berries," and open your wallet to buy another one, or do you take it back to the store and claim "it was DOA" and try to exchange it or get your money back? Probably not the former.
I noticed them just after the scene died...
The scene didn't die -- it just died DOWN.
This is why Virtual PC for G5s doesn't exist yet; G5s are missing endian-related instructions that are used by current versions of VPC.
Well, that's part of the reason. It's not as though translating non-native-endianness is a problem that hasn't been solved; rewriting the VirtualPC code to call a translate routine on each memory read or write since a "shift into little-endian mode" instruction isn't available shouldn't be too large a task. (Obviously, though, there would be a significant performance hit.)
Another part of the reason is that Microsoft owns VirtualPC now, and they understandably don't have much incentive to make it easier for Mac owners to get the most out of their Panther-running G5 boxen. It's outside of their core market.
Believe it when you see it in the stores or are holding an official MS press release.
People believe things that appear in official MS press releases?
While backward compatability severely limited the potential of the PC, it was absolutely required to maintain continuity (check OS/2 sales for reference).
OS/2 seems to be a pretty poor example, as it was capable of running most legacy DOS software and 16-bit Windows software as well as, if not better than, Microsoft's original operating systems.
It was only when development began for Win95 and NT's 32-bit codebases -- which differed from what came before and from OS/2 -- that OS/2 began to lose marketshare.
OS/2 failed because of a lack of lateral compatibility, not backward.
Where the hell did this weird "compatability" mistake come from anyway ?
I blame the loosers who spend all their time masterbating instead of reading teh dictionary.
MST3k
So who owns it now?
Best Brains Inc. still exists, although they have few employees beyond Jim Mallon, few assets beyond a tape library and a warehouse of props, and do little business beyond the occasional negotiation with Rhino Video or sale of remaindered merchandise.
The situation gets a little more complicated, though, because MST3K episodes are derived works -- the majority of the films they watched were copyrighted by other companies, and had to be licensed.
The conditions of these licenses vary -- some included the right to resell, and that's why about 15% of the show's run is available on DVD now. Some were for broadcast only and may never see a DVD release. Some broadcast-only licenses even specified a limited number of airings -- "Gorgo" from the Sci-Fi run, for example, only aired a handful of times.
In 1976 congress extended copyright retroactivley to 75 years.
They also clarified that creative works are automatically copyrighted at the moment they are created in tangible form. You don't HAVE to send 2 copies of your work and a registration fee to the Copyright Office anymore to claim copyright.
This broadening of the definition of copyright can only be considered a good thing for artists and creators.
until one can write an OS kernel in it, Java is still not what I would personally look to for the future of software development.
That's a silly thing to say.
How many OS kernels are going to be written in the next ten years? And how many business applications? And the ratio of the latter to the former is what, 10,000 to 1?
If they want to get info let them start with basic geographic data. Don't show someone with a european IP ads for america only products. Surely that shouldn't be that hard?
How do you get basic geographic data about your users? There are basically two ways:
1) Use some sort of IP-to-location mapping system. All of a sudden, 30% of your traffic all lives in the same town in Virginia, where AOL's proxies are located.
2) Ask users what their zip code is. Since, as you've said, registration is totally useless because people fill in false info all the time, all of a sudden 40% of your traffic all lives in Beverly Hills 90210.
So how are websites supposed to accomplish their geographic goals with any accuracy?
If it's done but the docs aren't, nobody holds the release up.
If it's done but the docs aren't, IT'S NOT DONE.
This is a philosophy that the Open Source community desperately needs to adopt from the proprietary world. The better (or more existent) your docs are, the less time you'll have to spend reading requests for help on your project dev list.